The Favor: A Marriage of Convenience Romance by Suzanne Wright

Author:Suzanne Wright [Wright, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Dane leaned against the counter while I poured coffee into two mugs. “I want to know who else at o-Verve thinks like Jeff.”

I sighed. I should have known he’d circle back to that eventually. “Dane, can’t you just let it go?”

“You know me better than that.” He picked up his cup. “Was it confined to last night, or have things also been going on at the company?”

I set down the coffee canter. “Nothing’s been going on … per se.”

“Elaborate on ‘per se.’”

I explained how people had changed toward me, though I downplayed it slightly. “It was nothing, really.”

“It wasn’t ‘nothing.’ And don’t think I’m not aware you’re downplaying it.”

See, total warlock. “I knew there’d be people who’d accuse me of marrying the boss to get my hands on his money. No one actually said anything to my face until last night. And that was mostly just Jeff.”

“Mostly,” Dane echoed. “Who else?”

Knowing the graze on my palm would burn like a bitch if I grabbed my cup, I carefully lifted it by the handle and then sipped my coffee. “It’s not worth the bother.”

“If I let this go, if I don’t come down hard on it now, it will not only continue, it will get worse. So tell me who they are. I won’t drop this until I have their names. You’re already well-aware of that. Save yourself any further aggravation and just tell me what I want to know. Consider it an order from your boss.”

I reluctantly gave him the names. “I think two of them are actually on our reception guest list.”

“They won’t be after I tell Chris and Miley to cross them off it.” Sipping at his coffee, he stared at my rings—something he’d begun to do often. I wondered if he’d decided to keep the engagement ring after the divorce.

“Jeff, the two-faced fucker, shook my hand and congratulated me after hearing you and I got married,” Dane went on. “He said we made a great couple and that he’d always thought there was a ‘spark’ there. He’d been ‘rooting’ for us, apparently.”

“You believed him?”

“Not for even a millisecond. He’s not half as good an actor as he believes he is, and I’ve caught him mooning over you often enough to know he’d be far from happy for us. But I didn’t think he’d pull the kind of shit he did last night.”

I set down my cup. “I think he felt emboldened by you hinting at promoting him. I don’t know if the alcohol had muddied his thoughts, but he seemed to believe it meant he was too valuable to o-Verve for you to fire.”

Dane frowned. “There’s only one person in my company who’s an irreplaceable employee. That’s you. Which is why you’re not leaving.”

Explicit memories crawled all over me. “I’m not even touching that subject again.”

His eyes shimmered with something that made my stomach flip, and I wondered if he too was drowning in some very delicious memories.

I didn’t realize I’d fisted my hand until my nails pricked the pad-covered graze on my palm.

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